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Barbara Millicent "Barbie" Roberts

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Voiced by: Kelly Sheridan (from Nutcracker to Mermaid Tale, from Mermaid Tale 2 to Great Puppy Adventure) Diana Kaarina (from Fashion Fairytale to Princess Charm School), Kate Higgins (Life in the Dreamhouse), Erica Lindbeck (from Spy Squad to Dolphin Magic) America Young (Barbie Vlogs, Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures, from Princess Adventure to present) ^{Other Languages}

The girl who has everything and well-known Go-Getter Girl that can do any job, sport and profession without any problems.

The Ace: Her main selling point as a toy is that she's great at any job she has, whether it's as a doctor, singer, racecar driver, or even the president. It's Played for Laughs in Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse, which shows that she has acquired plenty of useful skills from her numerous jobs.
All Women Love Shoes: She owns a countless number of footwear.
The Beautiful Elite
Nikki: Barbie's a girl with everything!
Barbie Doll Anatomy: Her lack of genitals makes her the trope namer. This applies to all the other dolls on this page, too.
Beauty Is Never Tarnished
Celebrity Star: She’s a famous actress in-universe.
Cool Big Sis: To Skipper, Stacie, Kelly/Chelsea, and Krissy. She's their sweet older sibling.
Depending on the Writer: Due to her premise as The Everyman for girls who can be adapted to any situation, her exact personality is hardly set in stone and varies in adaptations that depict her as an actual character. The earliest movies (Nutcracker, Rapunzel, Swan Lake) have her portray relatively reserved, down-to-earth heroines. In Life in the Dreamhouse, she's a cheerful Parody Sue whose over-the-top perfection is played for comedy; in Barbie Vlog (and Dreamhouse Adventures, which is in the same continuity), she's a normal teenage Nice Girl who talks about and deals with mundane topics and problems. Outside media, like Toy Story 3, portrays her as a sweet-natured Dumb Blonde (who nonetheless has moments of intelligence and courage).
The Everyman: She was created as this for girls to project onto, hence her wide variety of jobs (so girls can choose which one they want to be) and constant updates every decade or so to keep up with the trends.
Everyone Loves Blondes: She has several friends, and had more than one boyfriend.
The Fashionista: Mattel originally promoted her as a "Teenage Fashion Model", a job she occasionally resumes today. Sometimes she also designs and/or sells clothes.
Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: She's quite feminine but has had numerous camper and sports sets. She doesn't mind getting down and dirty.
Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's always depicted with blonde hair and often presented as very sweet and feminine, although this is sometimes subverted as she occasionally has other hair colors.
Hero Protagonist: Barbie is almost always the good-hearted heroine of the toyline's stories.
Hidden Depths: A Fashion Fairytale shows that she’s just as human as the rest of us (but plastic).
Impossible Hourglass Figure: Her waist looks pretty small in comparison to her bust and hips.
Jack of All Trades: Provides the page image.
I've had so many careers, it's hard to keep track of all 135 of them...and counting!
Ms. Imagination: Her role as narrator of several direct-to-video movies proves her as quite the storyteller.
Nice Girl: She's rarely ever mean or unpleasant and always enjoys helping others.
Official Couple: She and Ken have stayed a couple since The '60s, bar a brief breakup during the Turn of the Millennium.
Only Known by Their Nickname: She's never referred to as "Barbara".
Pimped-Out Dress: She's often portrayed wearing many of these.
Princess Classic: She always plays as one if there's a story involving a princess.
Spoiled Sweet: She's obviously wealthy but is still the nicest girl you'll meet.
Statuesque Stunner
Unlimited Wardrobe: It's literally the size of a small country in Life in the Dreamhouse.
Vague Age: Barbie is often portrayed as being a teenager in several adaptations, but has also had pregnant married friends, gotten married herself, and gone through just about every career known to man throughout the doll's history.
Vocal Evolution: Kelly Sheridan's voice for Barbie got more high-pitched and squeaky as the years passed.

Skipper Roberts

Skipper in The Great Puppy Adventure

Voiced by: Paula Rhodes (Life in the Dreamhouse) Kristen Day (“Dreamhouse Adventures” and “Barbie Vlog”)

Barbie's teenage younger sister who is often portrayed as a tech-savvy girl with a fixation on phones and gaming

Adaptation Dye-Job: She was originally blonde like her sisters, but from 2011 onward her hair changed to brunette with a colored stripe (usually purple, but sometimes blue or pink).
Bookworm: She loves reading.
Brainy Brunette: In 2011, Skipper's hair color changed from blonde to brunette.
Bratty Teenage Daughter: Due to her age, Skipper can be very sarcastic (to the point where Barbie says she "speaks sarcasm like a second language") and bratty at times, especially if her phone is taken away.
Brilliant, but Lazy: She portrayed as this in Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse, with her admitting in some episodes that she could do more to help her sisters and their friends but prefers not to.
Camera Fiend: She loves to take photos. Her whole subplot in Dolphin Magic is about her working on her photo-blog.
Characterization Marches On: Early Skipper accessories and commercials made her behavior seem no less girly than that of Barbie, but she was given her more tomboyish personality later on.
A Day in the Limelight: She's the central character of the Barbie and Friends Book Club story, Skipper's Baby-Sitting Blues.
Deadpan Snarker: She portrayed as this in Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse, with snark being her response to almost any situation.
Gamer Chick: Skipper is more of a techno-gadget chick, but she's definitely got the female nerdity down.
Geek
Ken: Hey, Skipper! You're missing some great surfing!
Skipper: (typing on her phone) You surf the way you wanna surf, I'll surf the way I wanna surf.
Hipster: Part of her style.
Only Known by Their Nickname: "Skipper" sounds like a nickname but she has never been called anything else.
Phoneaholic Teenager: Since her 2011 redesign, her being attached to her smartphone has become a core aspect of her character (especially in Life in the Dreamhouse).
She Is All Grown Up: A 1970s doll called "Growing Up Skipper" could increase her height and chest size with a turn of her arm.
The Smart Girl: Out of the sisters, she is the tech wiz and even an inventor in some iterations.
You Don't Look Like You: Her modern brunette teenage version doesn't look much like her original design.

Stacie Roberts

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Voiced by: Paula Rhodes (Life in the Dreamhouse), Cassandra Lee Morris (Dreamhouse Adventures)

Barbie's second younger sister. Often portrayed as a Passionate Sports Girl.

Adaptation Dye-Job: From 2011 on, her eye color changed from blue to green.
Control Freak: Stacie organizes festivities for Chelsea's sixth birthday with "military-precision scheduling".
Genki Girl: She tends to get really hyperactive.
Passionate Sports Girl: Stacie is usually quite into sports.
The Pig-Pen: A seemingly recurring, if albeit, downplayed trait of the character.
- In Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse, in the episode "Happy Bathday to You", while the other three sisters are sent after a specific pet to catch in order to give them their monthly baths, Stacie volunteers herself to "monitor logistics from the front base", which she later confesses to simply mean that she's "waaaay overdue for a little soap and water myself. So, why risk getting near the suds?", before passing out from a whiff of her armpit. Given that she ends the episode playing around with the pets in the mud, it seems like she doesn't smell bad simply because she doesn't like baths or showers, but instead she actively chooses to smell bad for the sake of smelling bad. It’s also left ambiguous how long it’s been since her last bath, but it’s heavily implied to be around as long as the pets.
- Also, in Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures, she is revealed in the episode "Room Swap" to be almost singlehandedly responsible for the massive trash in her and Skipper's shared room, including an expired milk carton and many dirty clothes. Also, the same episode eventually reveals that she "can't find anything when it's put away", after she flings all of her stuff out of a sports bag, filling the air with what looks like an awful smell, implying that that bag isn't washed very often if at all. Also, she complains about Barbie washing her softball uniform that she "never cleans until the end of the season", and, according to Barbie, was "burning a hole in the floor from the stink" because it was her "lucky stink".
Retcon: She's often referred to as being a modern incarnation of Tutti.
Sudden Name Change: She is assumed to be a Tutti under a new name.
Tomboy and Girly Girl: The tomboy to Chelsea's girly girl.
Tomboyish Ponytail: She usually has her hair up in a ponytail, befitting her sporty nature.

Kelly Roberts/Chelsea Roberts

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Voiced by: Laura Gerow (Life in the Dreamhouse), Cassidy Naber (Dreamhouse Adventures)

Barbie's third younger sister. Often portrayed as a Cheerful Child. She was initially introduced as a toddler no more than three, but was later aged up to a 5-7 year old.

Baby Talk: Spoke like this in her early years, especially during the Barbie and Friends Book Club series.
Big Sister Worship: Chelsea truly admires her big sister Barbie and wants to be just like her.
Characterization Marches On: As Kelly, Chelsea was relatively quiet, unassuming, and unconfident, often relying on her big sister Barbie for guidance, although the Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse series portrays her as a loud, sassy little girl who loves the spotlight and being the center of attention.
Dub Name Change: An odd example with shades of Market-Based Title; prior to the rename to "Chelsea" she was known as "Shelly" rather than "Kelly" in Europe, possibly to match up with the Family Theme Naming of Skipper and Stacie.
Girlish Pigtails: She's the current youngest Roberts sister.
Sudden Name Change: From "Kelly" to "Chelsea" as of 2011. Curiously, one of her friends was similarly named "Chelsie".
Tomboy and Girly Girl: The girly girl to Stacie's tomboy.
You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Kelly's roles in the early Barbie movies often involved her portraying an timid, unconfident toddler who was ultimately given a confidence boost from Barbie.
Young Entrepreneur: She opens a successful café that sells different kinds of lemonade.

Krissy Roberts

Barbie's baby sister.

The Baby of the Bunch: Literally. She's an infant and is Barbie's youngest sister.
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Excluded from the "Barbie and Her Sisters" toyline and from the Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse web series.

Margaret and George Roberts

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The sisters' parents. They were only occasionally seen in tie-in media until the 2010s, when they started appearing much more regularly.

Feminine Women Can Cook: Among her many domestic abilities, Margaret is a rather good cook.
Happily Married: They're the happily married parents of Barbie and the other Roberts children.
Invisible Parents:
- They're not toy line characters and have only appeared in extended media.
- They've yet to appear in Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse, although "Let's Make a Doll" implies that at least one of Barbie's friends (Nikki) met them.
Mother Nature, Father Science: Margaret is a kind, nurturing homemaker while her husband George is a caring, but stern man who works long shifts as an engineer.
Like Mother, Like Daughter: Barbie and Margaret are said to be very similar in terms of both appearance and personality.
Standard '50s Father: George, a hard-working provider who also happens to be married to Margaret, a House Wife.
Sudden Name Change: In Life in the Dreamhouse Barbie's mother is named Martha instead of Margaret.

Tutti Roberts

Barbie's other kid-sister. She was retired during the 70s.

Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: She's been absent since the 70s. It's assumed that Stacie is just her with a new name.

Todd Roberts

Barbie's only brother. He first debuted as the twin brother of the short-lived Tutti in the later 60s, then was rereleased as Stacey's twin in the 1990s before being retired during The New '10s.

Boyish Shorts: Ten year old Todd—in both the 1960s and the 1990s—wore shorts in many of his individual releases.Tthis helped show him as younger than the mature adult male dolls like Ken. (He had pants in the first 1990s release, but this was part of the "cool look" and he came with soccer shorts; nearly every other set included shorts.)
Demoted to Extra: His doll is still in use, however is extremely rarely used. His last appearance was in a 2008 Mary Poppins set.
Polar Opposite Twins: Although not reintroduced in the Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse web series, Word of God says that Todd is intended to be a smart, bookish, Lovable Nerd, while his twin sister Stacie is an energetic, all-around Passionate Sports Girl.

Barbie's Mainline Lovers, Friends, and Foes

Ken Carson

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Voiced by: Adrian Petriw (from A Fashion Fairytale to The Princess and the Popstar) Sean Hankinson (Life in the Dreamhouse), Ritesh Rajan (Dreamhouse Adventures)^{Other Languages}

Adaptation Dye-Job: He is a brunette in Toy Story and some of the earlier Barbie movies.
Butt-Monkey: In A Fashion Fairytale, he suffers a lot of comical mishaps in his efforts to find Barbie to clear up their misunderstanding.
Camp Straight: He's always as fashionable as his girlfriend, and some of his outfits also have sparkles or pink on them. Played for Laughs in Toy Story 3, where he has girly handwriting, loves to pose like a model, and insists to no avail that he's not a girls' toy.
Cuteness Proximity:
I suffer from 'Hyper Cuteness Sensitivity Disorder'. Whenever I'm in close proximity to something adorable I, well....faint. It's quite common.
Depending on the Artist: Is he brown haired, blond haired, or black haired and in what shade? The animated movies switched his hair color between brown and blond (more often brown in the earlier films), but later media (including Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse and Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures) portray him as blond.
Gadgeteer Genius: Ken often tries to help Barbie by making new inventions.
Mr. Fanservice: He's always portrayed as a handsome Pretty Boy with a sharp fashion sense to match Barbie's.
Official Couple: He and Barbie have stayed a couple since The '60s, bar a brief breakup during the Turn of the Millennium.
Perma-Shave:
- Usually, but "Cool Shaving Ken" from the 1990s had a beard that could be removed with warm water and would eventually grow back.
- Averted in Life in the Dreamhouse, where after waiting all day for Barbie he's grown some stubble overnight.
Pretty Boy: He always has boyish, youthful features.
Prince Charming: He serves this role in videos adapting fairy tales.
Understanding Boyfriend: When Barbie needs a shoulder to cry on, he'll not only let her lean on his, but pull out some tissues to dry her eyes and cupcakes to eat away her sorrows.

Tommy Carson

Big Brother Instinct: In the same sense that Chelsea always strives to act like her big sister Barbie, Tommy openly admires his brother Ken and hopes to become like him.
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: He inexplicably disappeared from the main line through the years.
Spear Counterpart: To Kelly/Chelsea. He's Ken's kid brother in the same way Barbie has hers.

Midge Hadley

Voiced by: Ashlyn Nicole Selich (Life in the Dreamhouse)

Her appeal comes from the fact she's not as glamorous as Barbie, but doesn't feel ashamed of it. The Life in the Dreamhouse website describes her as adorkable.

Childhood Friends: She and Barbie have been friends ever since they were both little girls growing up in Willows, Wisconsin.
Commuting on a Bus: Discontinued in 1967 and replaced with PJ. She was bought back in the late 1980s, discontinued soon after being married, and brought back again in 2001 for the Happy Families set. When she was brought back in 2013, Midge was reverted back to being single, with her entire family (Alan included) being gone.
Happily Married: Midge began dating Allen in 1963. They were married in 1991 and have since had three children.
Progressively Prettier: Mattel originally introduced her to appease people who wished their dolls didn't look so unrealistically beautiful. However, she eventually became harder and harder to distinguish from Barbie. Life in the Dreamhouse, both the show and the toys, show at least a little effort to make her homelier than Barbie.
Youthful Freckles: Most Midge dolls have these.
Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: She is of Irish descent.

Alan Sherwood

Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: When Midge was brought back in 2013, Alan wasn't.
Happily Married: Allan married Midge in the early '90s, and they stayed together up through the start of the following decade.
Inconsistent Spelling: It was originally spelled "Allan Sherwood".

Teresa Rivera

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Voiced by: Marÿke Hendrikse (from Diamond Castle to present), Katie Crown (Life in the Dreamhouse), Cristina Milizia (Dreamhouse Adventures)

Breakout Character: It's hard to believe she didn't appear until 1988, nearly 30 years into Barbie's existence. Despite this, she's been featured in nearly every line since she made her debut and become Barbie's best friend, taking over from Midge and Christie who've both been Out of Focus.
Celebrity Star: A famous fashion designer.
Dye Hard: invoked Although her primary/canon hair color is brown, she has occasionally been a blonde and a redhead.
Hidden Depths: See The Smart Girl.
Phenotype Stereotype: Latina, fairly tan compared to the white Barbie, and has darker hair.
The Smart Girl: Teresa may be a Cloudcuckoolander, but she has a lot of intelligence hidden under that.
Supreme Chef: She loves baking cupcakes.

Steven

Token Black Friend: The only African-American male doll in Barbie's line, and Ken's most-frequently appearing friend after Allan got Put on a Bus.
Token Minority Couple: He becomes the boyfriend of Barbie's most frequently-appearing African-American friends. His girlfriends so far include Christie, and currently Nikki.

Summer Gordon

Voiced by: Tara Sands (Life in the Dreamhouse)

Adaptational Nationality: She is American in all cartoon media.
Big Eater: It helps her build up energy for different sports.
Competition Freak: She loves challenging the other girls in her favorite games.
Genki Girl: She's perky and inexhaustible, much to the dismay of Skipper, Stacie, and Chelsea.
Land Down Under: Cali Girl Summer and her brother Blaine are both Australian natives. This might not apply to Life in the Dreamhouse Summer, who does not have an Australian accent.
Passionate Sports Girl: Cali Girl Summer loves tennis, while her Life in the Dreamhouse counterpart loves everything from football to Call of Fashion.
Sore Loser: She seems prone to freaking out and throwing tantrums if she can't win a game.

Blaine Gordon

Land Down Under: Blaine and his sister are both Australian natives.
Romantic False Lead: He temporarily became Barbie's new boyfriend.
The Rival: To Ken, since they both dated Barbie.

Nicole "Nikki" O'Neil/Watkins

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Voiced by: Nakia Burrise (Life in the Dreamhouse), Desirae Whitfield (Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures)

Celebrity Star: Of her own 'in the know' Vlog.
Only Sane Woman: Life in the Dreamhouse portrays Nikki as Barbie's most level-headed friend.
Sassy Black Woman: Nikki's cast profile at the Life in the Dreamhouse website states that she is "Smart, sassy, and totally fun to be around".
Sudden Name Change: Her surname is "Watkins" in Dreamhouse Adventures.
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Barbie's old Black friend Christie.
Token Black Friend: Currently the only African-American among Barbie's companions.

Raquelle

Voiced by: Chiara Zanni (The Barbie Diaries), Britt Irvin (from A Fashion Fairytale to A Fairy Secret), Haviland Stillwell (Life in the Dreamhouse)^{Other Languages}

Adaptation Dye-Job: She has strawberry blonde hair in The Barbie Diaries, but from A Fashion Fairytale onward, her hair was changed to black.
Alpha Bitch: In The Barbie Diaries only, she's the catty popular girl who goes out of her way to make Barbie miserable.
Attention Whore: Oftentimes it seems like Raquelle only hangs around Barbie in hopes of outshining her.
Butt-Monkey: Karma bites her for trying to steal Barbie's spotlight.
Canon Immigrant: She was originally created as a one-off antagonist for The Barbie Diaries, but was eventually adapted into the main toyline and made appearances in more Barbie-related media (Barbie: A Fairy Secret, Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse).
Deuteragonist: Becomes the second main character alongside Barbie in A Fairy Secret.
Evil Redhead: Downplayed; she's the Alpha Bitch and has reddish strawberry blonde hair in The Barbie Diaries. Her other portrayals instead have her with black hair.
Friendly Rival: Since she still hangs out with Barbie and her friends, she can't hate her that much.
It's All About Me: She has a rather large ego.
The Klutz: She can't act as graceful as Barbie can.
Poke the Poodle: Her evil plan is to... 'catch [Barbie] in a fashion fail and post pics on the Internet'.
Race Lift: She's sometimes portrayed as the Asian doll in Barbie's circle of friends, though this is hardly consistent.
The Rival: She's portrayed as this to Barbie in The Barbie Diaries, being a bullying Alpha Bitch. Later portrayals have softened this significantly and either have her make amends with Barbie (A Fairy Secret) or make her a comically inept wannabe rival who can never surpass Barbie no matter how hard she tries (Life in the Dreamhouse).
Small Role, Big Impact: She only had one scene in A Fashion Fairytale, but she's the reason behind Ken breaking up with Barbie near the beginning, as she sent a fake text message claiming Barbie can do better on her own.
We Used to Be Friends: In The Barbie Diaries, Raquelle and Barbie used to be good friends with each other until she became popular and began upstaging her.

Ryan

Voiced by: Charlie Bodin (Life in the Dreamhouse)

Casanova Wannabe: He constantly flirts with ladies, but always strikes out.
Half-Identical Twins: Raquelle's twin brother.
One-Steve Limit: Happy Family Midge and Alan had a son named Ryan. Dreamhousers consequently became pretty confused when Midge developed a crush on this Ryan.
The Rival: Constantly vies against Ken for Barbie's affections.
Small Name, Big Ego: He feels rather confident about his handsomeness and songwriting talent despite his failure to sell any CDs.

Dana/Becky/Bibi Yeosan

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A character introduced in the Rockers line.

Expy: of Aja from Jem as they are both Asian. However, Dana is Korean American, while Aja is Japanese (or Chinese) American.
Sudden Name Change: In the Sensations (Bibops in Europe) line, she was renamed Becky (or Bibi in Europe).
Token Minority: She's Korean.
No Name Given: Dana's name is never said at all in the movies.

Dee-Dee/Belinda Schwitzerson

Voiced by: Joanne Wilson

Another character in the Rockers line.

Sudden Name Change: To Belinda in the Sensations dolls.
No Name Given: Again, same as Dana.

Ophelia/Becky "Diva/Bopsy'' Butler

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Another Rockers character.

Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: She is of Scots Irish descent.
Stage Name: Diva, which is ironic because she's no diva at all.
Sudden Name Change: To Ophelia "Bopsy" in the Sensations dolls. In Europe, she was known by her real name which was Becky (which was Dana's name in the American version).
Only Known by Their Nickname: She was only called Diva in the movies.

Marie-Alecia

Tia Ashbei and Courtney Tsubasa

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Barbie's two friends in The Barbie Diaries.

Token Minority: They are African-American and Japanese-American, respectively.

Isla

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A mermaid who Barbie meets in Dolphin Magic, and helps save the Gemstone Dolphins.

Renée Honda

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Voiced by: Stephanie Sheh (Spy Squad, Dreamhouse Adventures), Shannon Chan-Kent (Video Game Hero)^{Other Languages}

Barbie's Japanese-American-British friend who is a main character in the franchise since 2016.

Pimped-Out Dress: In Spy Squad.
Action Girl: In Spy Squad.
Claustrophobia: She suffers from this, especially in Dreamhouse Adventures.
Interchangeable Asian Cultures: Despite her obviously being Japanese, she is referred to as "Renée Chow" in Princess Adventure, and one episode mentions some of her relatives live in China. She could have some Chinese background as well, but could also just be the creators forgetting her nationality.
Token Minority: She's Japanese-American-British.
True Blue Femininity: Most of her outfits.
Raven Hair, Ivory Skin
Famous-Named Foreigner: Not really a person, but she has the same name as the car company (which also happens to be Japanese).

Taylor and Carrie

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Two girls who are secret fairies and friends in Barbie: A Fairy Secret.

Daisy Anne Kostopolous Doyle

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A new character introduced in the Netflix series Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures. She is also a DJ.

Battle of the Bands: In "Barbie's Dance Dilemma", she goes up against Tammy.
Big Beautiful Woman: She is not svelte and perfect like most women in the Barbie franchise, and is instead more curvy and on the heavy side, but is still easy on the eyes.
But Not Too Foreign: She has Greek ancestry.
Hartman Hips: She's got huge hips and a big butt.
Hime Cut: Her hair is in this style.
Innocent Blue Eyes: Daisy is very good hearted and has light blue eyes.
Nice Girl: She may be rambunctious, but she's also feisty, kind, caring, compassionate and loving.

Marlo Buchanan

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Voiced by: Maryke Hendrikse^{Other Languages}

The villain of Dolphin Magic, Marlo is a poacher who claims she's a marine biologist, but actually wants to exploit rare animals.

Beauty Is Bad: Marlo is pretty, but also very greedy.
Evil Redhead: The main villain of Dolphin Magic.

Prince Johan

A prince who wants to take over Floravia, and the villain of Princess Adventure.

Expy: Of Preminger from The Princess and the Pauper.
Prince Charmless: He wants to take over Floravia and pretends to be on good's side.

Tamara "Tammy Bounceaway" Wen

Voiced by: Kirsten Day^{Other Languages}

Barbie's main rival, and Raquelle's replacement.

Alpha Bitch: She is the meanest girl at school.
Asian Rudeness: Comes naturally with being a bully, and she's Chinese.
Auto-Tune: What she does to make her voice sound better so she can cheat at the contest.
Glass-Shattering Sound: She can't sing AT ALL.
Green-Eyed Monster: She's very jealous of Barbie's success and popularity.
Hidden Depths: In the climax of "Copycat", she's revealed to be an expert when it comes to macaws. This comes in handy when Chelsea and Stacie have trouble getting Kacey's pet macaw out of the Reardons' house.
Male Band, Female Singer: In "Barbie's Dance Dilemma", she becomes the lead singer of a band with Trey, Ned and Ted playing the instruments.
Word Salad Lyrics: The song she sings, "Rock Your Socks Off", makes zero sense as it constantly brings up rocky road ice cream.

Barbie's Extended Family

Francie Fairchild

Alliterative Name: Both her given name and surname begin with "F".
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: She completely disappeared from the Barbie line in the late 70s and hasn't been reintroduced since.
Generic Girl: Francie does not appear to have distinctive personality traits outside of being the slightly younger cousin and possible Foil to Barbie.

Jazzie Fairchild

Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: She and Francie both disappeared from the Barbie doll line for unknown reasons.
Perpetual Smiler: Out of all the dolls, Jazzie was definitely the cheekiest.
Totally Radical: Heck, she even had a love interest named "Dude".

Millicent Rawlins

Voiced by: Patricia Drake (from A Fashion Fairytale to A Perfect Christmas)

A French fashion designer.

Cool Aunt: To Barbie and her sisters.
- Cool Old Lady: She is a fashion designer who also does parkour.
Cloudcuckoolander: To a small extent, according to Barbie in a Fashion Fairytale.
Determinator: When it comes to saving her shop in Barbie in a Fashion Fairytale.

Friends of Barbie's sisters

Skipper's friends

Courtney

Ascended Extra: Shares this role with Skipper in the Three Cheers For Becky book.

Stacie's friends

Whitney

Ascended Extra: Has a big role in the Friendship, Not For Sale book where she is to move away soon and must come to grips with the possibility of never seeing Stacie again.

Kelly/Chelsea's friends

Chelsie

Voiced by: Britt McKillip

Ascended Extra: Along with Keeya for the Dream Club video.

Keeya

Voiced by: Shannon Chan-Kent

Ascended Extra: Along with Chelsie for the Dream Club video.

So In Style

Grace

Voiced by: Lillian Sofia (Life in the Dreamhouse)

Black and Nerdy: She loves science and math.
Hidden Depths: Grace has a deep interest in science.
Sassy Black Woman: Averted in Life in the Dreamhouse, played straight in A Fashion Fairytale.

Trichelle

Kara

Chandra

Performance Artist: she's into dancing and theater.

Janessa, Kianna, Courtney, and Zahara

Child Prodigy: Kianna, a music prodigy who is portrayed as being rather smart and precocious.

Characters / Barbie

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